Music and more at three-day Geneseo Music Festival

After some changes last year, the 2013 Geneseo Music Festival will return to a three-day event and a more familiar schedule.

Claudia Loucks

After some changes last year, the 2013 Geneseo Music Festival will return to a three-day event and a more familiar schedule.

A major change to last year's festivities was having the parade on Saturday, rather than on Sunday, as had been the custom since the festival's beginning, and the absence of craft vendors in city park.

Both the Sunday parade and the park craft show will return to the 2013 festival line-up.

"Dream Big - The Sky is the Limit" is the theme of this year's parade which is sponsored by DHCU Community Credit Union, and will start at 2 p.m. June 16, from Geneseo High School travel south along State Street to the Geneseo

City Park.

Brian DeJohn, executive director of the Geneseo Chamber of Commerce, said it was DHCU's decision to move the parade back to a Sunday afternoon feature.

"As a sponsor, it was up to them to decide which day worked, and they chose to slide it back to Sunday," he said. "I think having it on Sunday may allow us to bring back some entries."

Missing from last year, but returning this year, will be the arts and crafts show in city park. The craft show will be from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. on June 15.

"We heard from public opinion that most people enjoyed having arts and crafts in the park," said DeJohn.

In previous years, the craft show was held more than one day, but DeJohn said it was the crafters themselves who expressed the choice of a one-day show.

New to this year's schedule will be the "Family Fun Zone," from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on June 15. The fun zone will be on Pearl Street between the north and south sides of the city park.